The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) served as an important negotiating forum beyond the confines of the Cold War. This volume focuses on the Vienna Follow-up Meeting (1986â1989), covering prominent issues, such as military security and human rights, as well as less explored topics, including culture and the environment. The book contextualises the Meeting within the CSCE process and global political events, presenting diverse perspectives, retrospectives, and outlooks. It offers insights into the latest scholarship on this important but largely under-researched diplomatic negotiation. Many contributions utilise previously unpublished and unresearched files, along with diplomats' memoirs, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and media reports.
Contributors are: Andrea Brait, Michael Gehler, Maximilian Graf, Anna Graf-Steiner, Simon Graham, Kai Habel, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Nina Hechenblaikner, Wanda JarzÄ bek, Jonas Kaiser, Miroslav KunÅ¡tát, Roland Ernst Laimer, Matthias Peter, Willi Schrenk, and Hermann Wentker.
Nina Hechenblaikner, MA, worked as a research associate at the University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on the Cold War, diplomatic history, and human rights. Her publications include analysis of the Third CSCE Follow-up Meeting and the New Diplomatic History.
Andrea Brait, PD MMag. Dr., University for Continuing Education Krems, is the head of studies at the Center for Cultures and Technologies of Collecting. Among other topics, she has published works on Austriaâs cultural diplomacy.
List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Contributors
The CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Vienna (1986â1989)
An Introduction
âNina Hechenblaikner and Andrea Brait
Moscow and Vienna on the Road to Helsinki
âAnna Graf-Steiner
From Helsinki to Vienna
The CSCE Process in the Second Cold War âHermann Wentker
Austriaâs âMr. CSCEâ Helmut Liedermann
A Biographical Approach to the Helsinki Process âMaximilian Graf
The Concluding Document of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting, 15 January 1989
An Analysis of Its Drafting and an Interpretation in Comparison with Other Declarations âMichael Gehler
Negotiations on Cultural Cooperation at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting from the Perspective of the Austrian Foreign Ministry
âAndrea Brait
The âneglected step-childâ of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting?
Basket II from the Perspective of the Austrian Foreign Ministry âRoland Ernst Laimer
Front Page News or Side Note?
The Human Dimension of the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Austrian and West German Newspapers âNina Hechenblaikner
Questions of Security
The Role of the Vienna Follow-up Meeting on the Road from the CDE to the CFE Treaty âJonas Kaiser
Shifting Agendas?
The United States, the Soviet Union and the Vienna CSCE, 1986â1989 âJussi M. Hanhimäki
European Political Cooperation at the Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting (1986â1989)
âMatthias Peter
Divergent Neutral Strategies
The N+N and the Issue of Disarmament âKai Habel
East German Intelligence Perspectives on the CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Vienna
âSimon Graham
A German-German Conflict in a Multilateral Framework
The Debate on Compulsory Currency Exchange at the Vienna Follow-up Meeting âWilli Schrenk
Human Rights, the Vienna Follow-up Meeting and Political Transformation in the Eastern Bloc
The Case of Poland
âWanda JarzÄ bek
The Vienna CSCE Follow-up Meeting and Czechoslovakia
âMiroslav KunÅ¡tát
Bibliography
Index
This book is primarily aimed at scholars, academic institutes, and libraries who study the Cold War, East-West relations, international conferences and networks, or the foreign policies of the participating states.